The Migrant Crime Reporting Act of 2026 would provide $1 million annual grants to states that track and report data on migrants charged or convicted of crimes. States receiving the grants must collect information from their local law enforcement agencies about migrants—defined as individuals unable to present U.S. citizenship documents—who have criminal charges or convictions, then publish this data publicly and submit it to the Department of Homeland Security. To be eligible for a grant in any given year, states must have already published and submitted a migrant crime report for the previous fiscal year. The bill would begin awarding these grants in fiscal year 2027 and would fund the program through existing appropriations under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed in 2025. The legislation aims to create standardized national data on crimes involving migrants through state-level reporting requirements.
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